[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He had his ambuscade set for them and captured them all In the following; fall his enlistment expired and he retired to private life. His whole pay from the government was but two hundred and fifty dollars, so that any remuneration he received from the committee of safety must have been very little. In October, 1/81, m partnership with his brother Benjamin, he bought three hundred and seventy-nine acres of the forfeited Roger Morris estate, near Brewster's. A part of this tract is now covered by the Croton Reservoir. He erected a frame house on the east branch of the Croton River, a short distance east of the upper iron bridge at Croton Falls, where he lived a epiiet life many years Ihe property is now owned by Joel B. Purdy. Later, Crosby built the house now owned by Ins granddaughter, Mrs. S. E. Mead, of Gulden's Bridge. It stands north of the old house In this house Crosby passed the later years of his life, and died June 25, 1835. He was interred in the old Gilead burying-ground, near Carmel, Putnam County. He married the widow "of Colonel Benjamin Green. Colonel Green was also a soldier of THE NEUTRAL GROUND 423 the Revolution, and after the close of the war settled near the present Somers Centre depot. After the Colonel's death his widow remained in the house until her marriage with Crosby,